Unclassified road crash in Derby DE21 on 18 June 1997 at 18:40 involving a Skoda Favorit
A Skoda Favorit crashed on an unclassified road in Derby at 18:40 on Wednesday 18 June 1997. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jun 1997
- Wednesday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Favorit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.94439, longitude -1.44489, in the DE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Derby.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997307D00480
- Council area
- Derby
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Favorit
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Favorit)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 1997307D00480 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Derby road accident statistics for 1997.